8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)God and his servant Jonah had parted in anger, and the quarrel began on Jonah’s side; he fled from his country that he might outrun his work; but we hope to see them both together again, and the reconciliation begins on God’s side. In the close of the foregoing chapter we found God returning to Jonah in a way of mercy, delivering him from going down to the pit , having found a ransom ; in this cha…
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